He speaks in the hardboiled language of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but Thompson goes out of his way to accentuate the character's freakishness. |
Jake is a strong man with a strong voice, whose freakishness is confined to his race. |
After all, anyone who actually makes us feel proud of our freakishness is, I think, worth listening to. |
At tea, two or three hours earlier, they had, in the freakishness of affection, drunk from one cup. |
The reactions that poured in captured the shock of a people struggling to come to terms with the freakishness of it all. |
Her affection for these people shines through the quaint freakishness, and I rather believe she understands precisely what she's trying to accomplish. |